The Cheating Double Standard Nobody Talks About

The gist

1. Cox says roughly eight or nine in 10 Americans see infidelity as morally wrong, and that view has stayed steady while other attitudes shifted.
2. In a split-sample survey, men judged male and female cheating the same, and women judged male cheating the same way men did.
3. Cox says young women stand out as less likely to call a woman's cheating wrong, possibly due to shared fate or experience of being cheated on.
4. Williamson cites David Buss's view that serious sexual offenses come from a few repeat offenders, and Cox agrees but thinks online harassment is far more widespread.
5. Cox says online harassment follows women into their homes, and that girls must set their own limits on nude requests because norms against them are weak.